Public morals / [James Marchant, editor].

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[between 1900 and 1910]
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Credit: Public morals / [James Marchant, editor]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    through the senses than the physical man. Educators should therefore interest children’s minds in things pure, beautiful, and reasonable, and at the same time restrain them from sights and sounds which excite sensual desires. They should not take them to places—theatres or balls—where the fashion is to expose parts of the human body ; they should not let them read tales or see pictures whose interest is in their ' sensuality. They should be careful in their diet—avoiding too much meat; and they should in a serious way—in connection perhaps with their botany lessons—make them familiar with the wonders of procreation. They should also encourage the habit of self-restraint in little things, even, e.g., in the eating of sweets. 3. Legislation is perhaps the least effective while it is the most obvious of all the remedies. It might enforce street decency, and with a more equal hand punish solicitation. It might prevent the exposure of immodest pictures and the performance of immodest songs or plays. It might close disorderly houses, disallowing the technicalities by which some now escape, and it might punish equally men and women discovered using such houses. But for legislation to be of any use the executive force must be improved. The police must be better paid, and officered by a class whose traditions are against bribes of all sorts. II By Rev. R. F. Horton, M.A., D.D. My own view is that there is but one complete security against vice, and that is the indwelling